Events / San Francisco

Inference-Time Compute Hackathon

A 24-hour SF hackathon from Etched, Cognition, and Mercor on inference-time compute, with agents, real-time, and applied-AI tracks.

Fri, Jun 19, 5:00 PMMid-Market, San Francisco, CA

Why it matters

Each team gets eight H100s for 24 hours and a shot at a $50k top prize — a rare chance to be compute-rich for a weekend.

The tokenmaxxing angle

Inference-time compute is literally spending more tokens to think harder; this hackathon gamifies the exact trade-off this site obsesses over.

From the organizers

Etched hosts alongside Cognition and Mercor, providing 8x H100s per team plus meals and space, with over $100k in total prizes.